SDMI Gets a New Name

An Anonymous Coward writes: "EETimes is reporting that a new group, the Digital Media Device Association (DMDA), is looking to pick up where SDMI left off. 'The group intends to address interoperability and content-protection issues for digital audio devices that were left unresolved when the Secure Digital Music Initiative ceased activities last year.' Some ideas just won't die."

Comments

SATAN

[oni]

Why don't they just cut to the chase and call it something like the Secure Audio Technology Applications Network

"Congress today passed legislation that will require SATAN be a part of all new PCs"

"Dude, I just got SATAN so I can listen to N'Sync"

May be in response to Hollings' directive?

[Masem]

They don't list specific groups involved, but the article states that it's mostly hardware (both computer and audio) that are working on this. Given that a few weeks ago, Sen. Hollings held the SSSCA over the industry like the Sword of Damecles, this could be activity in response to that build to hold the gov't at bay as they take steps to develop their own messures.

Convenient name

[booch]

DMDA is close enough to DMCA that we can just take our anti-DMCA stuff and just change one letter.

Re:Convenient name

[PolyDwarf]

DMDA is also close enough to DVDA, which aptly describes what the entertainment industry wants to do to the PC.

(If you don't know what DVDA is, watch Orgazmo)

To be followed by SADD

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

The Secure Audio Detention Device will consist of a special earplug that decrypts the audio content, and plays it back at a low volume, to ensure that only a single licensed listener can hear it.

A body-temperature sensor and an earwax-detector will both ensure that the device is not used outside of the ear canal, where illegal signal capture might take place.

The chemical signature of the user's earwax will also be monitored, to ensure that the device is not being shared by multiple users, in violation of the License Agreement.